Rendez-Vous with French Cinema titles Love at First Flight and Hippocrates were honored at the annual César Awards recently in Paris. The films will screen in the 20th annual series which spotlights French film. Rendez-Vous opens this Friday.

On this week's edition of the Film Society's weekly podcast series The Close-Up, we're featuring a conversation with filmmaker David Cronenberg from 2005. His latest film, Maps to the Stars opens this week.

The complete lineup for New Directors/New Films is out. The 44th edition of the annual festival organized by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center includes 26 international features and 16 short films.

Marielle Heller's Sundance hit The Diary of a Teenage Girl will open the annual festival on March 18. New Directors/New Films is a co-presentation of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art.

Actor J.K. Simmons has garnered multiple wins as well as an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the ruthless conductor Terence Fletcher in Damien Chazelle's Whiplash, which explores the boundary between teaching and sadism.

Alejandro G, Iñárritu's Birdman has been a darling of this year's Awards Season. The film, starring Michael Keaton, closed the 52nd New York Film Festival last October and is the focus of this week's edition of The Close-Up, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's weekly podcast series.

Free Talks with Nathalie Baye, Mélanie Laurent, and Guillaume Canet are among the highlights of the Special Events set to take place during the upcoming 20th anniversary of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.

CITIZENFOUR, the groundbreaking documentary about Edward Snowden and the NSA, has enjoyed a stunning festival run. Laura Poitras's film, which had its World Premiere at NYFF52, could be this year's nonfiction Academy Award winner.

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